Chapter 171 Cangzhou Relief (Part 2)
Xin Wang said: "It's right. The thief will bring so many people here. It shouldn't be a visit to the fun and leave. [Top][point]?"
"Watch the changes. Brother Cheng told us that even if there are 500 Jinyiwei and twenty tiger squatting cannons, thousands of troops can defend the camp. Therefore, we don't have to pay attention to the tricks of the bandits, just keep it alone."
The two of them had decided to make up their plans, so they returned to their own positions. King Xin lay on the fence of the camp like before. Ke Qingqing was in the middle to command.
King Xin and Cao Shangfei stared at each other with five hundred steps. King Xin did not order anyone to fire the cold gun, for fear of scaring Cao Shangfei away, and there was no war to fight, that would be boring. The Cao Shangfei did not order anyone to fire the cold arrow, because it was useless to release it. The arrow could not fly that far away from more than five hundred steps.
The two of them just watched this. After two quarters of an hour, the sound of sky-rushing cannons exploded in the east of the camp, and then the explosion of sky-rushing cannons also rang in the west.
Ke Qingqing said: "It seems that the bandits want to divide troops into four groups to siege the camp."
King Xin was overjoyed and said, "Okay, this will make you happy."
Ke Qingqing divided the remaining Jinyiwei into five teams, four teams guarding the camp's southeast, west and northeast, and the other team was left as a mobile unit. Wherever there was insufficient staff, they would supplement the captain. The captain didn't have to choose. Zhu Youcheng left behind a complete set of five hundred households, and he could just let the hundred households lead the soldiers to fight.
Ke Qingqing said, "Prince Xin, you'd better not participate in the war personally. Command the artillery in the east and north. I command the artillery in the south and west. The artillery has already calibrated the angle of the artillery. You command the artillery. When the main force of the bandits is concentrated in three hundred steps, let the artillery fire. Although I don't know the power of the artillery, Brother Cheng is always right."
King Xin climbed up and said, "Okay. I will be this commander and I will definitely blow the bandits and overturn them!"
At this moment, the sharp explosion of sky-storm cannons sounded from the north of the camp, and after a while, the explosion of sky-storm cannons sounded from the south.
Ke Qingqing and King Xin said in unison: "The enemy has begun to attack."
After saying that, the two walked to their command position to observe the enemy situation. Both of them had telescopes, and through the telescopes, they could see the enemy situation clearly. Even the ferocious expressions on the thieves' faces could be seen clearly.
When the enemy's troops unfolded, the sound of a bean-like musket sounded, and the chargers fell down one by one like cutting wheat.
After all, the Jinyiwei was too small and the firepower was not strong enough. After the bandits left nearly a thousand corpses, they finally approached the camp three hundred steps.
Cao Shangfei was overjoyed. As long as he pushed nearly two hundred steps, the soldiers could shoot arrows to suppress the enemy's muskets. Thousands of corpses advanced two hundred steps, which means that if another thousand people died, they could move forward two hundred steps. It seemed that the camp had hope of breaking through. I remembered the beautiful female soldiers in the camp on the tree, and the small tent on Cao Shangfei's crotch was bulging higher and higher.
After a quarter of an hour, the bandits left behind thousands of corpses and finally moved forward with difficulty for fifty steps. Most of the soldiers were concentrated three hundred steps away from the camp.
Zhu Youcheng and Ke Qingqing seized the opportunity and shouted at the gunner and set off firecrackers.
The gunner had loaded the gunpowder and put the flowering shell into the cannon barrel. He shouted: "Cover your ears!"
The guest Qingqing, Zhu Youcheng, and the Jinyiwei all covered their ears together.
I naturally couldn't fire the gun by covering my ears, and the sound of the gun stopped abruptly.
Cao Shangfei was overjoyed. It seemed that the camp guards had exhausted ammunition, and now it was his turn to show his power. He shouted: "They used up their bullets, let's rush!"
In the camp, the gunner lit the leads of the shells, then covered his ears, and heard a "boom" sound, and the flowering shells exploded three hundred steps. A large pit five feet wide appeared on the ground, and the corpses of the bandits in the original position were not there. The soldiers next to them were also shocked by the shock waves, and some soldiers were hit by the debris of the bomb and died on the spot. The remaining limbs were flying all over the sky, and the wailing sounded throughout the sky.
Ke Qingqing and King Xin's chins were almost falling to the ground. It turned out that this was the power of the cannon. As expected, this cannon took away two hundred lives. Twenty cannons fired at the same time, and at least half of the bandits were wiped out.
Of course, because the fire was opened at the same time, the sound of the cannons was slightly louder. The ears of Ke Qingqing, King Xin and Jinyiwei were buzzing, and the city walls in the distance were also slightly shaken, which scared the whole city of soldiers and civilians who thought the earthquake was coming again.
After a long time, Ke Qingqing and King Xin reacted and shouted: "Go to the second shot and kill these rebels."
The gunner picked up the mop and dipped it in and out, applying it inside and outside the tiger squat cannon to cool it down. However, after the cooling was reduced, the gunner stopped filling the cannon with gunpowder. They said, "Two sirs, you no longer need to fire the cannon."
Ke Qingqing looked around and found that, sure enough, not only did this gun kill more than half of the enemies, but also destroyed the enemy's confidence. The bandits are now crying and crying for their parents and fleeing in a panic.
The enemy was defeated and defeated.
Ke Qingqing made a quick decision and ordered a Jinyiwei, a hundred-household Jinyiwei who was in the middle to support, rode on a war horse and went out to pursue the battle, and tried his best to expand the results of the battle.
King Xin rode on a white horse and was about to go out to participate in the battle. Ke Qingqing held him tightly: "King Xin, if the son of a thousand gold is not in the Chutang, you cannot go out to fight."
King Xin still wanted to struggle, but Ke Qingqing said again: "This is what Brother Cheng said. He also said that if you insist on going to fight, after this battle, I will not take you out to fight in the future."
After hearing what the guest Qingqing said, King Xin had to get off the horse in a bad mood and pouted, "Okay, I'm afraid of you."
The explosion was so strong that Zhu Youcheng, who was chasing the deserter, also heard it. He had left five hundred Jinyiwei and twenty tiger squat cannons for Ke Qingqing and King Xin, and could defend it no matter how hard he was. But the concern was chaotic. He called Wu Huping and asked him to take five hundred soldiers back to the aid camp.
Looking at the bandits begging for surrender all over the ground, Zhu Youcheng ordered people to notify the Cangzhou defenders to come out to help. At this time, the bandits were still too late to escape and did not organize effective resistance at all. At this time, the Cangzhou defenders came out to help were undoubtedly a gift to them.
Chen Guoqi asked a little reluctantly: "Sir, our Jinyiwei has the ability to eliminate the non-sticky mud, why should we share the credit to the Cangzhou defenders?"
"You also see that I gave the credit to the Cangzhou garrison? The Cangzhou garrison lacked enough weapons. He guarded the lonely city for half a month without any credit, and worked hard. He gave them some credit to them, so that the officers and soldiers guarding the city were commended by the Ming Dynasty, which was also a reward for their loyalty to their duties. Moreover, if Cangzhou guards the Grand Canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou, it is always a good thing to have a friend. Maybe they will be needed in the future."
Chen Guoqi nodded as if he understood.
Lu Ping came out on a war horse, followed by two thousand infantrymen.
When Lu Ping saw Zhu Youcheng bowed and said, "You are Lord Zhu, you are such a heroic young man. Thank you for letting us participate in the war. I am a rough man and can't speak. If you have anything to do in the future, just talk."
Lu Ping was a smart man. He knew that Zhu Youcheng gave him military merits and thanked him repeatedly.
Zhu Youcheng smiled and said, "You don't have to be polite, I will block the retreat of the bandits. If you and I attack each other, the bandits will definitely be surrendered."
After saying that, Zhu Youcheng rode his horse and whipped it, leading the Jinyiwei forward, blocking the retreat of the rioters. There were interceptions in front and pursuers behind. The rioters who had already scared themselves knelt on the ground and surrendered. Of course, there were also dead and hard-working elements, all of whom became wandering souls under the muskets.
Zhu Youcheng walked along the way and saw the broken countryside and hatred for the rioters reached its peak. How could he admire the so-called backbone of the dead and hard-working elements? He harmed the people and refused to surrender. Living was a waste of food. It would be better to send him to the West. He was not interested in taking such people to the Meridian Gate to offer prisoners.
After cleaning the battlefield, the results were counted. In today's battle, a total of 1,5,775 bandit soldiers were killed and 1,9,349 enemies were captured. Unfortunately, according to the prisoners' instructions, Buzanmu had already escaped under the escort of more than 70 personal soldiers.
Before the battlefield was cleaned, Wu Huping came over with five hundred soldiers, and they also escorted a large group of prisoners.
King Xin happily told Zhu Youcheng that the battle to defend the camp had come to an end. In this battle, a total of 6,132 enemies were killed and 3,868 enemies were captured. The bandit leader Cao Shangfei was captured alive, and none of them missed the net. Originally, the battle record was not so brilliant, and only one hundred people could be used to cover the turmoil, but it was still difficult to capture so many prisoners alive. Fortunately, Wu Huping arrived and the two sides worked together to capture all the remaining bandits.
At this moment, Zhu Youcheng drove into the city. The prefect Xu Ruzhi and the garrison Lu Ping held a grand banquet at the prefect's office, warmly entertaining the three thousand households, including Xinwang, Zhu Youcheng, Wu Huping, Chen Guoqi, and Ke Qingqing. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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